Friday I only had a few hours to work on the port. I thought I might look into what it would take to add the main menu. It’s an important part of the shell that I completely skipped in my first pass. Unfortunately, there aren’t really any free or open source menu controls that I could find...

This is a true story. It’s a story about porting a non-trivial WPF application, NHProf , to Silverlight 4. The story begins today with my first actual work on the porting process. Microsoft has been preaching how easy it is to move between these platforms. Are they telling the truth? I’ll...

Yesterday I delivered my talk, “Build Your Own MVVM Framework,” at Mix. Thanks to all who came out to listen and allow me a short time to share some of my ideas. I’m very grateful to have had this opportunity. Thanks also to all who voted for the talk. If you were not able to make it...

Tomorrow I kiss the wife and baby goodbye (sadly) and hop on a plane heading to Mix in Las Vegas . This year I have the unique honor and privilege to present “Build Your Own MVVM Framework.” I’ll be speaking Monday afternoon at 3:30 PM in Lagoon F. Here’s the official description...

Since our v1 release of Caliburn in October, we’ve had a healthy amount of bug fixes and feature improvements. The community has really gotten involved and contributed in a big way. The result of this contribution is the forthcoming v1.1. As of this post, the release candidate is available for...

It’s shameless, I know. But, please vote for my sessions at Mix :) The voting tool can be accessed here: http://visitmix.com/opencallvote/ Below are titles, descriptions and links to where you can vote for each of my submissions. Votes must be submitted by Friday, January 15, 2010.* Title : Build...

In the last par t I showed a very basic view model. I needed something in order to give those new to the concept of MVVM a concrete example. However, there are several aspects of that example that left me feeling uncomfortable; not to mention the myriad questions that seemed to arise in my mind about...

Over the next several months I am going to be releasing various starter kits/samples for Caliburn. Each sample will demonstrate a different application style. I’ve factored each sample so that it has a reusable mini-framework, allowing developers to easily take the shell and start plugging in their...

If you are building an OOB application with Silverlight that relies on web services, you may have some interesting challenges on you hands. You probably want to have some fallback for certain operations when the network is down. You can do some fun stuff with caches and message queuing, but...

You can check it out immediately at http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta Here's a couple of other links to help you get started as well: http://wildermuth.com/2009/11/18/Silverlight_4_Beta_Announced! http://johnpapa.net/silverlight/silverlight-4-beta-announced-at-pdc09-great-learning...

Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed by finding bugs, submitting patches, recommending...

Today I’ve made the RC3 of Caliburn v1 available. I’m going to let it sit for a couple of weeks, then I will RTW. Please take time to update your code to this new version and post any bugs to the codeplex site . Any bugs not found in the next couple of weeks will have to be fixed in v2. Below...

There are several major architectural approaches used in building user interfaces. MVC, MVP and MVVM seam to be the most popular of the bunch. From among them, MVVM has risen to the top of the stack for WPF and Silverlight developers. Even ignoring the question “Why use separated presentation at...

I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed since RC1, its quite significant: Added the...

On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies for greater ease of use. Implemented an Application...